Experience Quotes
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable.
I'm slowly becoming a repository for decomposing sorrows, regrets, ignored injustice, and forgotten promises. I can still feel its stench. But when I get accustomed to it, I will call it experience.
My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.
We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.
As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.
One thing you learn from surfing is how to operate in the present. It's really what the surfing experience is all about.
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
I think everything about my life is magical. I've struggled, and against most odds, I'm truly having the experience of living my dreams.
It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.
The feeling we experience while we look at a picture is not to be distinguished from the picture or from ourselves. the feeling, picture, and ourselves are united in one mystery.
You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.
When ypu awaken love and laughter in your life, your mind lets go of fear and anxiety, and your happy spirit becomes the healing balm that transforms every aspect of your human experience.
Love is the natural condition of all experience before thought has divided it into a multiplicity and diversity of objects, selves and others.
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.
I'maa tell you right now as an experience, dammit, I'm going to enjoy that one as much as I hate to admit it.
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'
There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.
As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.
I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.
In my experience, getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never-give-up attitude and of course a rich mind-set.
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.
Mind is indeed the Builder . . . what is held in the act of mental vision becomes a reality in the material experience. We are gradually builded to that image created within our own mental being.
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.
Love is the experience that others are not others. Beauty is the experience that objects are not objects.
I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.
Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.
Be very very still and allow every new experience to take place in your life without any resistance whatsoever. You do not have to do anything, you simply have to be and let things happen.
I was determined to experience the birth, and I am so scared at the thought of having my abdomen cut open. So I was lucky that the birth went very smoothly.
My experience indicates that most people who've accumulated a great deal of wealth haven't had that as their goal at all. Wealth is only a by-product, not the original motivation.
Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.
I'm by no means a perfect human being. I experience more than half of my life perpetuating darkness. That was because I was dropped in a place of darkness and expected to find a way out.
From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.